David Cohen

MAY 17, 2013

'Veterans give so much in their service to our country, it’s always an honor to be able to give something back no matter how small. That’s why at TechStars we’re very excited to be offering another TechStars Patriot Boot Camp from July 17-19 at George Washington University in Washington D.C. This will be the second year for the event, an intense three-day program designed to teach and mentor Veterans and Service Members about entrepreneurship and help them build and develop innovative technology

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 2013

'Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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TechEmpower

MAY 17, 2013

'We have posted Round 5 of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. In this round, we''re very happy to announce that a community member has contributed tests for ASP.NET running on native Windows. We''ve included Windows on EC2 results as a separate set of data within the results view but caution that the results should be considered preliminary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2013

'Being a risk taker in business is not the same as being reckless. Nevertheless, the word “risk” has a negative connotation to most of us, implying danger and possible loss. For true entrepreneurs, risk is viewed as a positive, with its implied challenge to overcome the unknown and hitting the big return. In fact, risk is an integral part of life, as well as every business, yet so few people learn to manage it properly, or even want to think about it.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2013

'by Joyce D. Tucker. From medical records to I-9 forms, the human resources department of any business, large or small, is probably cluttered with paperwork. Even if you keep records digitally, you may wonder how much storage space you need to devote to records that are years old. On the off chance that your company may one day face litigation regarding an employee, it’s essential you know how long to keep these records.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 17, 2013

'At this year’s NVCA meeting , my partner Jason Mendelson (who was the chair of the event) interviewed Dick Costolo, the CEO of Twitter. Dick is an awesome CEO, awesome human, and awesome interviewee. Among other things, he’s hilarious, and PandoDaily wrote a fun summary of the interview in their post What CEOs could learn from comedians.

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BeyondVC

MAY 17, 2013

'External branding starts with developing a consistent, internal message first. When you think of branding and positioning, remember that your first line of offense and the most important representation of your company comes from your employees. Make sure you have a succinct, crisp and clear 2-3 sentence pitch on what you do and that everyone from the CEO down to the engineer or QA can repeat the same mantra.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 17, 2013

'There are two types of salespeople: 1. The people who can sell. 2. The people who can sell themselves. There is only one way to distinguish them: Cold, hard numbers. The salespeople who can sell themselves are masters of cling. They likely clinged to their last job for a couple of years, until they couldn’t sell themselves any more. They are masters at explaining things away.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 17, 2013

'I’ve just read Bill Barnett’s article on Winning as a self-fulfilling prophecy which argues that optimists’ irrational belief in their chances of success makes them to try longer and harder to get there and makes them better motivators and leaders of teams. They are therefore more likely to succeed than people who are more even headed. He cites Steve Jobs as an example: Steve Jobs was said to have been surrounded by a “reality distortion field,” in that he would believe in possibilities even wh

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David Cohen

MAY 17, 2013

'I’m incredibly excited about the recent launch of TechStars Austin. Austin is a natural fit for TechStars, and we’re looking forward to having an ongoing presence in this strong, active and growing community. We all know how great Austin is from our annual trips to SXSW , but in fact the city has a vibrant startup scene all year round. There’s just so much happening there, with many successful companies like Indeed, HomeAway, Bazaarvoice and Spiceworks, along with plenty more promising ne

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SiliconHills

MAY 17, 2013

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Women entrepreneurs must stop hanging back, letting fear win, believing that being partners and parents precludes them from being successful business owners. They must push themselves to create businesses with scaleable ideas that can grow into multimillion or billion dollar companies. Those were a few of the [.

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Up and Running

MAY 17, 2013

'Don’t get so wrapped up in work that you forget to stay up with the current events of the business world! Amid all of the chaos, grab a cup of Joe and take a short reading break. 1. If you haven’t heard about the Amy’s Baking Company fiasco, please look into it. It’s probably the most hilarious and frightening online meltdown in business history.

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SiliconHills

MAY 17, 2013

'By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News Do you like music videos? Do you miss old MTV? If you do, then you’ll probably like Rockify. Created by Joel Korpi, the Rockify platform is designed to present music videos in a better format than other sites on the web. But there’s a twist, Korpi has [.] The post A Slice of Silicon Hills rocks out with Rockify appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Scott Edward Walker

MAY 17, 2013

'To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Tim O’Reilly , the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media and a brilliant entrepreneur. In this interesting, five-minute clip from a couple of months ago (courtesy of Stanford University’s Entrepreneurship Corner ), Tim discusses the following three nuggets

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Early Growth Financial Services

MAY 17, 2013

'by Matt Howard Originally published on VentureBeat and Norwest Venture Partners blog. There was a time when investors would rush startups to market, but a shift has taken place during the past 20 years where the pace has slowed a bit. Now I find myself increasingly advising entrepreneurs to avoid putting a product to market before it is truly ready.

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Small Business Force

MAY 17, 2013

What is a mentor? Advisors, mentors and business coaches, call them what you will, typically, give you a snapshot of their advice/focus in the books, blogs and articles that they write. With many of them, though, you get the feeling that every entrepreneur is in the Silicon Valley and every start-up is a high tech company. And, of course, all of them will eventually be funded by a well-known venture capital firm.

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